Release of alchemy-utils 0.1a1, a cross-database sqlite-utils built on SQLAlchemy, with performance boosts for DuckDB exports and CSV imports.
Azure Monitor SLIs on Managed Prometheus: undocumented gotchas, including the critical customdefault namespace, for building SLIs with infrastructure as code.
A guide to designing user-centred reliability with Azure Monitor SLIs and the Azure SRE Agent, using a payment service example.
Explores the operational costs and design considerations of scaling an agentic coding SDK for concurrent repository fixes, focusing on isolation, concurrency, and persistence.
Ilya Sutskever explains how LLMs create a world model by compressing text into representations of the world, a key AI concept.
A developer's wishlist for Cursor IDE, covering missing features like activity view and artifact annotation.
A software developer's monthly retrospective on his book 'Refactoring English', covering sales growth, scraper bots, and AI game development.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is now available via API on OpenRouter, with no official announcement page yet. Open weights likely, benchmarks shared via community.
Introducing Fisher, a SQLite-backed document database and event store for .NET, offering Marten-like developer experience without a database server.
Release of alchemy-utils 0.1a0, a cross-database sqlite-utils built on SQLAlchemy, supporting PostgreSQL, SQLite, and DuckDB.
A quote about AI's impact on software engineering, highlighting how AI tools can lead to convoluted projects that no one fully understands.
Explains why cryptic command line shortcuts like !$ become memorable through use, highlighting Unix consistency.
Explains why higher MaxDOP in SQL Server increases TempDB spills due to memory grant division across parallel threads.
Step-by-step guide to set up OpenWebUI on Docker with Foundry, Entra ID authentication, and Caddy reverse proxy.
Daily tech news roundup covering .NET 11 Preview 7, AI coding agents, web dev tools, and more.
Announcement of 'Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch' book now on Amazon, with warnings about counterfeit copies in India and request for reviews.
Explains VCF Automation marketplace as a governed self-service factory for application environments, focusing on operational contracts and platform products.
Troubleshooting guide for vSphere Supervisor deployment stuck at installing Kubernetes Node Agent, focusing on vLCM compliance issues per Broadcom KB 393663.
Azure Policy definition to enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by denying manual ARM API requests from user identities, restricting ClickOps.
Google Maps and Google Search now work together in the Gemini API, enabling combined tool calls for location-aware apps.
